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“Masterly. . . . Sensitively explores togetherness, aloneness, betrayal and love.” —The New York Times Book Review2016 Honor Book in Fiction, Boston Globe Horn Book AwardA NYT Editors' Choice and NYT Notable Children's Books of 2015This brilliant novel by Newbery Medal winner Rebecca Stead explores multiple perspectives on the bonds and limits of friendship. Bridge is an accident survivor who’s wondering why she’s still alive. Emily has new curves and an almost-boyfriend who wants a certain kind of picture. Tabitha sees through everybody’s games—or so she tells the world. The three girls are best friends with one rule: No fighting. Can it get them through seventh grade? This year everything is different for Sherm Russo as he gets to know Bridge Barsamian. What does it mean to fall for a girl—as a friend? On Valentine’s Day, an unnamed high school girl struggles with a betrayal. How long can she hide in plain sight? Each memorable character navigates the challenges of love and change in this captivating novel. Praise for Goodbye StrangerSix Starred ReviewsPublishers Weekly Best Books of 2015School Library Journal Best Books of 2015Booklist Editor’s Choice 2015The Horn Book’s Fanfare: Best Books of 2015The Washington Post Best Books of 2015The New York Times Notable Children’s Books of 2015“This astonishingly profound novel is not your average middle-school friendship tale.” —The Horn Book, Starred “Stead shows how strongly love of all kinds can smooth the juddering path toward adulthood. Winsome, bighearted, and altogether rewarding.” —Booklist, Starred “[Stead] captures the stomach-churning moments of a misstep or an unplanned betrayal and reworks these events with grace, humor, and polish into possibilities for kindness and redemption. Superb.” —Kirkus Reviews, Starred“This memorable story about female friendships, silly bets, different kinds of love, and bad decisions is authentic in detail and emotion.” —Publishers Weekly, Starred “Filled with humor [and] delightful coincidences. . . . An immensely satisfying addition for Stead’s many fans.” —School Library Journal, Starred"The author as usual deftly interweaves her plot strands into an organic whole, and between the multifocal plot and the exploration on growth and self-recognition . . . deeply explores mistakes, and forgiveness, and growing away from people as well as toward them."—The Bulletin, Starred “This eloquent story of friendship, first love, and identity will resonate powerfully with readers.” —VOYA, Perfect Ten"Stead raises questions about whether a relationship can survive change. If someone makes a mistake, can you forgive the person, if not the act? Can two people reconcile, if they are both willing to process what happened? Or is the change more systemic--has one of you become a stranger? . . . It's a question all of the characters ask themselves at some point in Stead's perfectly synchronized novel." —Shelf Awareness
Lexile Measure: 0560 (What's this?)
Series: Boston Globe-Horn Book Honors (Awards)
Hardcover: 304 pages
Publisher: Wendy Lamb Books (August 4, 2015)
Language: English
ISBN-10: 0385743173
ISBN-13: 978-0385743174
Product Dimensions: 5.8 x 1 x 8.5 inches
Shipping Weight: 1.6 pounds (View shipping rates and policies)
Average Customer Review: 4.5 out of 5 stars See all reviews (75 customer reviews)
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Age Range: 10 and up
Grade Level: 5 and up
Rebecca Stead writes great books that at first glance, seem like light little stories about friends hanging out and having some fun adventures together. There's usually an interesting mystery involved and her well developed characters learn new things about themselves, and where they fit into the world they live in.Happily this book, Goodbye Stranger, follows the same format. It is set in a 7th and 8th grade school in New York City, it is about friendship and loyalty and the meaning of life (really!) It's about making good choices, trusting, supporting and forgiving your friends when they do something stupid. There is an, appropriate for middle grade, cautionary tale plot line related to internet safety and what can happen if you text pictures that you wouldn't want others to see, to a boy. it doesn't delve deeply into these topics and it never goes dark. The kids learn the right lesson without suffering any long lasting, traumatic scars. All in all I enjoyed this book, but since my twelve yr old daughter is more the target reader than I am, I also put it in her hands.Her thoughts: She read it in a day and liked it a lot. She thought the friendship between the three main girls was believable but she thought some of the plot would be more likely to happen in a high school than a middle school. The developing relationship between Em and the 8th grade boy seemed, to her, too advanced compared to the fellow 7and 8 graders that she knows. She is speaking from her own current personal experience of living in exactly that world, probably not true of every middle school though.
After much consideration, I think I’m going to begin this review with what has to be the hoity toity-est opening I have ever come up with. Gird thy loins, mes amies. In her 2006 book Betraying Spinoza: The Renegade Jew Who Gave Us Modernity (don’t say you weren’t warned), philosopher Rebecca Goldstein wrote the following passage about the concept of personal identity: “What is it that makes a person the very person that she is, herself alone and not another, an integrity of identity that persists over time, undergoing changes and yet still continuing to be — until she does not continue any longer, at least not unproblematically?” In other words, why is the “you” that you were at five the same person as the “you” at thirteen or fourteen? Now I don’t know that a lot of 10-14 year olds spend their days contemplating the philosophical meanings behind their sense of self from one stage of life to another. But if they hadn’t before, they’re about to now. Goodbye Stranger by Rebecca Stead has taken what on the surface might look like a fluffy middle school tale of selfies and first loves and turned it into a much more layered discussion of bodies, feminism, the male (and female) gaze, female friendships, relationships, and betrayals. And fake moon landings. And fuzzy cat ear headbands. Hard to pin this one down, honestly.By all logic, Bridge should have died when she was eight years old. She skated into the street and got hit by a car, after all. Yet Bridge lived and with seemingly no serious repercussions. Recently she’s been taking to wearing little black cat ears on her head, but her best friends Emily and Tab don’t mind. It’s their seventh grade year and there are bigger things on their minds.
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